Heart to Heart to Heart is a full-day session for couples and attendants to connect with the mother, the baby and each other in preparation for birth. Through movement, touch and mindfulness practices, participants practice entering into the physiological rhythms, flow mind state and activities of the baby and mother during birth.  

In this extended session, a couple and their birth team have an opportunity to create the outer container of safety and support within which the woman and baby labor.

Just as the woman and the baby labor together in intensity and with vulnerability, husbands, partners and attendants are called upon to enter into intensity and intimacy in support. Through partner assisted labor positions and slow dancing for early labor, partners are invited to practice giving their women and babies physical and emotional closeness in the session.

Activities Connections among mom, partner and baby through breath, natural rhythms & touch Yoga poses adapted for labor Partner supports for labor positions Practice emotional and physical intimacy Breath and mindfulness meditation practice Experience baby’s birth journey Slow partner dancing for labor

Benefits Approach birth as intimate activity among mother, baby & helpers Gain ease working with intensity Assists the birthing woman Create safety for the birthing mother Increased resources for birth Sense presence & capacity of baby Practice intimacy in semi-public setting

Comments from a doula
Pregnant after prior difficult birth and C-section, this mom put together a birth team and support from Catherine so she could do this birth differently. Catherine created an opportunity for the birth team to connect.

We all danced together and rocked in a supported birth position, where we were able to let go of inhibitions. Movement can be a vulnerable place, but it helped this mom to feel that we are all in it together and helped dad be more intimate with her while others were in the room. Working with Catherine really helped at birth. It was a beautiful birth – only a poem could describe it. That woman found herself. - Marcia McMullen, childbirth assistant

Heart to Heart to Heart - Couples comments

Heart to Heart to Heart left me feeling more connected with our growing baby and helped me internalize a sense of the coming birth. The workshop helped my wife and I gel as a birth team and helped me be the support my wife needed during labor. - Gordon Tennessen Weil

Cat’s leadership was an invitation to integrate body and mind as whole way of being as well as preparing for the birth.

Wow! A day-long date with my wife! I feel so much more connected to her and so much more centered for our birth.

I appreciate Cat’s relaxed way of getting at the intensity of pregnancy and birth. As a husband, it was wonderful to be included in the story. I even love my wife and in-utero son more after today. – Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan

Heart to Heart to Heart - evaluations
Physical closeness was very helpful. Slow dancing helped me connect to my husband. It was the first time in months that I felt attractive.

I was distressed before I came into the workshop. Your support for me while I was feeling like falling apart helped relieve my anxieties.

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